Yandex’s news aggregator has started labeling content from media outlets designated as “foreign agents” in Russia. The website now displays the words “FOREIGN AGENT” next to these publications’ names, followed by a dropdown menu that contains a full legal disclosure.  There’s some dispute about whether the law actually requires Yandex to share these designations.  Spokespeople for the company told Interfax that Russia’s laws on news aggregators require Yandex to comply with… Source link

The U.S. now leads the world in Bitcoin mining, according to data from the Cambridge Bitcoin Electricity Consumption Index (CBECI), which tracks Bitcoin’s energy consumption by geography. According to data added to the index, the United States currently makes up 42.7% of the Bitcoin network’s “hashrate,” a metric unit that measures how much power the Bitcoin network consumes. Up 14%, the growth in America’s hashrate — also known as hashpower — reflects the changing geopolitical… Source link

Mark Cuban just tripled his stake in Dogecoin — but his bet on these 2 stocks is 667x larger Mark Cuban just tripled his stake in popular cryptocurrency Dogecoin — from $500 to $1,500. Of course, for a billionaire shark and owner of the Dallas Mavericks, that’s not exactly a big chunk of change. While Cuban has been highly supportive of Dogecoin, calling it the “people’s way to pay” back in August, he recently told Fox Business that he owns the token just “for fun.” “I’ve… Source link

The chief software officer at the Pentagon, Nicolas Chaillan, suddenly quit last month over concerns that the U.S. military had fallen “15 to 20 years” behind China in cyber warfare and artificial intelligence, he told the Financial Times.  The warning marks the latest sign of discord within the U.S. military over how to prepare for what former Google executive Kai-Fu Lee calls the “third revolution” in warfare, after gunpowder and nuclear arms.  In a new interview, ex-General Stanley… Source link

Google has warned of a surge in activity by government-backed hackers this year, including attacks from an Iranian group whose targets included a UK university. The search group said that so far in 2021 it had sent more than 50,000 warnings to account holders that they had been a target of government-backed phishing or malware attempts. This represents an increase of a third on the same period last year, Google said in a blogpost, with the rise attributed to an “unusually large campaign”… Source link

Valeriya Ryabchikova, a junior software developer with Yandex’s e-commerce platform Yandex.Market, has won the 44thInternational Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC) in Moscow as part of a team of three representing Nizhny Novgorod University. The silver medal was taken by a three-member team that included another Yandex employee, Aleksander Kernozhitsky, a student at Belarusian State University. At Yandex, Aleksander is working on distributed… Source link

For 25 years, Plug Power (PLUG) has quietly nudged the U.S. towards hydrogen fuel cell technology. Now, its stars are starting to line up. The hydrogen fuel company announced a string of new partnerships and a major acquisition at its annual symposium Thursday, riding on the momentum of a global push to accelerate the adoption of clean energy. Driving the initiatives is a larger push by the company to churn out 500 tons per day of liquid green hydrogen in the U.S. by 2025 and establish 13 green… Source link

Domino’s Pizza (DPZ) just saw sales fall after 41 straight quarters of U.S. same-store sales increases, ending one of the most impressive runs in the fast food industry. That streak ground to a halt largely because of the worker shortage pounding low wage sectors such as retail, restaurants, and hospitality. Domino’s U.S. same-store sales fell 1.9%, a sharp reversal from a 17.5% increase the same quarter last year, the company said Thursday. Same-store sales at company-operated and… Source link

Non-fungible tokens, or NFTs, have enjoyed a breakout year, with third-quarter sales delivering an absolute exclamation point at $10.7 billion. And yet, despite that eightfold increase from $1.2 billion in the second quarter, NFTs are just getting started if you believe advocates who predict use cases for the technology are about to stretch into new industries far beyond digital art. The fashion industry is providing the latest mind-bending example of just that. Fashion juggernauts, like Dolce… Source link

(Bloomberg) — Virgin Galactic Holdings Inc. is pushing the start of commercial flights further into next year after rescheduling a test flight, disappointing investors with the unexpected delay to its space tourism business plans. Most Read from Bloomberg A program to upgrade the company’s spaceplane is taking place a month later than anticipated, forcing the delay of a planned research mission with a crew of four and the start of commercial service into the fourth quarter of 2022, it said… Source link